Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
FIRSTGEN FORWARD
FIRSTGEN FORWARD (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being COUNCIL FOR OPPORTUNITY IN EDUCATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- City First Enterprises Inclocal
- New America Foundationportfolio match
- Foundation for Child Developmentportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FIRSTGEN FORWARD raised.
From the IRS filings of FIRSTGEN FORWARD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of FIRSTGEN FORWARD's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- City First Enterprises InclocalDC · funds 1035 organizations near you
- New America Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Child Developmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- SeldinHaring-Smith Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Public and Land-Grant Universitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theodore R and Vivian M Johnson Scholarship Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anita Borg Institute for Technologyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Strada Education Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Moss Adams Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Electric Power Research Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carnegie Corporation of New Yorkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deloitte Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FIRSTGEN FORWARD
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIRSTGEN FORWARD: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FIRSTGEN FORWARD?
- FIRSTGEN FORWARD (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being COUNCIL FOR OPPORTUNITY IN EDUCATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRSTGEN FORWARD have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to FIRSTGEN FORWARD.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRSTGEN FORWARD?
- COUNCIL FOR OPPORTUNITY IN EDUCATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRSTGEN FORWARD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 1funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing